VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUNBER
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
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FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1924
S. R. HOYLE FAVORS
RECORDERS COURT
Tells How the County Can Clear
the Docket in This
Manner
THAD PAGE TELLS
ABOUT HIMSELF
Shields Cflmeron Also Says
Something to Kiwanis
Club
Carthage, N. C., June 28th, 1924.
Eaitoi of The Pilot:
With considerable interest, I noted
the account in this week’s issue of
your paper, of a speech by Judge R.
H. Sykes, before the Aberdeen Ki
wanis Club explaining some of the
advantages to a county in having a
County Recorder’s court.
It is evident to anyone who will
take the trouble to investigate the
condition of the docket in this coun
ty, the criminal docket especially, that
this county needs very badly some re
lief somehow. It has been well said,
that delay in obtaining a trial is often
a denial of justice. Not taking into
account the vast number of civil cases
on the docket, that makes it almost
impossible to obtain a trial of a civil
cause under two years after it is in
stituted, the criminal business of this
county is very heavy, with only two
weeks of criminal court in which this
can be tried. Rarely ever, working at
top speed, is the court more than able
to dispose of the jail cases—that is
the causes of those defendants who
are unable to give the required bond.
When the last criminal term came to
an end, on Saturday evening of that
week, there were more than a hun
dred cases that had to be continued
because they were not reached, includ
ing three murder cases. Among that
number was a case, perhaps several,
that had been on the docket two years,
the defendant being compelled to at
tend court all of each term, during
that time, and compelled to lose at
least 20 to 30 days, when the matter
if investigated would readily be shown
to be unfounded, this great hardship
being inflicted on this man because of
this delay in having his case investi
gated or heard.
No one is to blame for the condi
tion of affairs, but it should be reme
died. There are only three sources
from which relief can come. One is
to increase the number of Superior
court judges, but as this has been at
tempted repeatedly in the past, and
it is evident to anyone who kept in
touch with the matter that no relief
can be expected any time soon from
that source. The other two ways, are
the County Recorder’s court, author
ized by the legislature by Chapter 277,
P. L. of 1919, and amended by Chap
ter 110 p. L. 1921 and the county
court, authorized by the last legisla
ture. The Recorder’s court may be
established by resolution by the Coun
ty Commissioners, who elect first
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At the Kiwanis Club in Aberdeen,
Wednesday, Thad Page interested the
assemblage with a biographical story
of his career, and he did it in an in
teresting fashion that set the folks
thinking. He started out with some
preliminaries, and then landed in
Washington a queer young chap from
the country, and through his father’s
station there he soon came into con
tact with many big people.
He had some funny experiences;
some encouraging and some not, but
he presented a statement showing that
in his pilgrimage through this vale of
tears, peaches, sand and automobiles
he has accumulated one wife, two kids,
a lot of friends and the assurance that
he will not be barred out of heaven
because his riches will keep him from
going through the eye of the needle.
Shields Cameron read his repast of
the Denver convention, and from it
the president of the club proposed to
adopt some suggestions that appear
ed of use to the local organization.
Shields was much impressed with the
work the Kiwanis membership is do
ing as was shown at Denver, and his
report foreshadowed a lot of good
from the organization.
VASS ROAD WORK
mm PROGRESS
New Street Out Carthage Way
Makes Things Look
Different
The man who has not made a trip
out the Carthage road since the new
work has been done out that way will
not know the country that is inside
the village limits, for the country road
has been widened and made into a
village street, and shaped up in a
highly creditable style. This is the
direct Carthage road, and the outlet
to the county capital and to a large
area of good farming country, and the
town authorities have determined to
give some tone to the approach to the
community. So from the heart of the
village a good road has been made,
and it has been built in a manner that
makes it a part of the permanent de
velopment of Vass, as well as an im
mediate opening of the street to its
proper width for the present.
As building has been going on out
in that direction the improvement of
the road found that part of the town
in condition to use a better street, and
it is assumed that more building will
follow now that the street has been
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ALBERT TDFTS WEDS
FRANC^EASTON
Ceremony in Providence, Rhode
Island—Fashionable
Affair
Providence Evening Bulletin
One of the early summer weddings
took place this noon at Grace Church,
when Miss Frances Easton, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tourtellot
Easton, and Albert Size Tufts were
married by Rev. Philemon F. Sturges.
Preceding the ceremony a programme
of music was given by the organist,
J. Sebastian Matthews, with chimes
accompaniment, as follows: “Waldwe-
ben” (Forest Murmurs), Wagner; pre
lude to act 3 of ‘‘Lohengrin,” Wagner;
grand march from “Aida,” Verdi;
“Messe de Mariage” (Marriage Mass),
Dubois; “Revery,” A. Borodio; “A
Song of India,” Rimskq-Korsakoff; af
ter the processional hymn, “Ancient
of Days” for the entrance of the vest
ed choir, the wedding party entered
to the music of the “Bridal Chorus”
from “Lohengrin,” Wagner. The
church was simply decorated with
palms and lillies in the chancel.
The bride entered with her father,
by whom she was given away. At
tending her were Miss Marie Merri-
man as maid of honor and four brides
maids, Miss Margaret Burr, of St.
Paul, Minn., Miss Mary Louise Frack-
elton, of Cleveland, Ohio, Miss Eliza
beth Luce, of Pekin, China, and Miss
Barbara Size, of Brookline, Mass.
The bride wore a simple draped
gown of white duchesse satin with
long sleeves of tulle and old lace and
a long point lace veil trimmed with
orange blossoms. Her bouquet was of
lilies of the valley and white sweet
peas. The gown of the maid of hon
or was of light delphinium blue chif
fon and a blue chiflPon and taffeta hat.
She carried an arm bouquet of orchid-
colored delphinium. The bridesmaid’s
gowns were fashioned of orchid-color-
ed chiffon with hats of leghorn and
orchid and blue chiffon. They car
ried bouquets of pale blue delphinium.
Preceding the bride and her attend
ants were the ushers, Dennison Warn
er Greene, Norman Saunders, Rich
ard Size Tufts, James Walker Tufts,
Sherill Kent of Pinehurst, N. C., and
Leonard Jenney, of Lexington, Mass.
At the altar they were met by the
bridegroom and best man, Charles
Sumner Stedman, Jr., of Albany, N. Y.
During the service the hymn, “O, Per
fect Love,” was given and at the con
clusion of the ceremony the party left
the church to Mendelssohn’s recession
al and the wedding chimes from the
Grace Church bells. A reception fol
lowed immediately at the home of the
bride’s parents on Charles Field street
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TESTING NITRATE
FOR PEACH TREES
Chilean Government Sends Rep
resentatives to Moore
County
The government of Chile has sent
representatives to Moore county to
investigate the action of nitrate of so
da on the peach crop. Experiments
will be made in a number of orchards
in the peach district in order that
the actual effect of nitrates contain
ed in the Chilean product may be
known. The fertilization of the peach
crop is not yet a positive bit of knowl
edge on the part of the peach men or
the makers of fertilizer, and as the
Chilean nitrate of soda is one of the
chief articles of export from that
country the government is anxious to
know where the sale of nitrate can be
extended and naturally turns with in
terest to the North Carolina peach
orchards.
The work will be carried on in sev
eral sections of the sandhills, and in
various ways to determine the action
of nitrate of soda in fertilizing the
tree and in the production of fruit,
and in the effect of the soda on the
fruit in making a good peach, and one
that may be affected in any way by
the use of the fertilizer in developing
any of the qualities of the tree or crop.
The purpose of the Chilean govern
ment is to widen the field for the sale
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WATER PLANT FOR
SOUTHERN PINES
Town Will Put $150,000 In
Large New Water
System
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
AT THE
CAROLINA THEATRES
Two More Real Attractions For
Next Week at Pinehurst and ,
Southern Pines
The possibility of a shortage in the
supply of water for Southern Pines
and the necessity of making provision
for an additional supply to prevent
the re-occurrence of a shortage such
j as the town faced last spring the
[height of the season has been one of
the hardest problems the mayor and
board of commissioners have had to
face since the steadily growing town
demanded that the old sand clay
streets be changed to asphalt. The
development at Lakeview and the de
mand of the Knollwood Company that
a method of sewerage disposal other
than the present method of dumping
it into McDeed’s creek has also held
over them the fact that some new
manner of sewerage disposal must be
evolved in order that Southern Pines
might not stand in the way of the
building of the proposed Knollwood
lake on the north edge of the town
or continue to menace the health of
those towns lying along McDeed’s
Some time ago Fannie Hurst, the
well-known writer, shocked the liter
ary and social world by announcing
that she had married on a part time
basis, that is, she and her husband had
drawn up an agreement that they
would remain under the same roof
only certain days each week or none
at all, in other words whenever the
“spirit moved.”
If they chose to eat breakfast to
gether, all well and good, and each
was to keep their own friends as be
fore.
We haven’t learned how this plan
has worked out but a picture has been
produced with this theory as the basis,
and a couple has tried it out in this
story with some laughable results.
Bebe Daniels as the bride and Nor
man Kerry as the groom and an all
star cast as the friends of both bride
and groom give us a merry hour’s en
tertainment in their attempt to work
out Miss Hurst’s theory.
Whether you believe in it or not
you will enjoy seeing it tried out in
“Daring Youth” next Monday and
Tuesday.
For Friday and Saturday there is
a treat in store for everybody when
Sinclair Lewis’ famous story “Bab
bitt” will be presented with Mr. Willi-
ard Louis, whom you will remember
as the Prince of Wales in “Beau Brum-
mell” playing the role of Babbitt.
There are so many good points
about this picture that one hardly
knows where to start enumerating
them, and the story is so familiar that
a synopsis of it is unnecessary.
It will be enjoyed by every Ameri
can audience for those who see and
enjoy this picture have at one time
or another gone through the very
same experiences.
“Babbitt” is the sort of picture we
are always seeking but seldom find.
creek.
In accordance with the present
board’s policy of always calling in ex
perts to advise them on technical
things pertaining to the town’s wel
fare, they employed Gilbert C. White,
the foremost hydraulic and municipal
engineer in the state, immediately af-.
ter the shortage this spring showed
that some addition must be made to
the town’s water supply system, and
instructed him to investigate the situ
ation fully and advise them as to
whether the present system could be
patched up so as to supply the need
for a few years longer, and also to
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MOORE COUNTY SUMMER SCHOOL F'OR TEACHERS
The Moore County Summer
School opened up with a rec
ord-breaking attendance on
^^onday, June 30th, to run
^or six weeks.
(^n Monday and Tuesday,
the registration totalled 98.
The registration will continue
through Wednesday, so the
^^undred mark will very prob
ably be reached. The attend
ance by counties is as fol
lows:—
Moore 31
Chatham 26
Randolph 16
Richmond 6
Montgomery 5
Alamance 4
Lee ^
Harnett 3
Cumberland 1
•Johnson ... 1
Wake .. 1
The instructors for the
summer school are R. G.
Hutcheson of Moore County,
Director; Miss Irma Carra-
way, of Wilson, Grammar
Grades; Mrs. Essie Blanken-
shipj of Charlotte, Primary
instructor; Miss Jeanette
Clatworthy, of Honea Path,
S. C., Primary instructor.
The Sandhill Farm Life
School is ideally situated for
Summer School work, and
Miss Susan B. Fulghum, the
State Supervisor of Summer
School work, is greatly pleas
ed with the opening, and is
looking forward to a most
successful term.
Total
Vs CAMPUS OP FARM LIFE SCHOOL, WHERE THE MOORE COUNTY SUMMER SCHOOL IS BEING HELD
The farm and home agents
of the state College exten
sion division will gather for
their short course at the Col
lege on July 14. The course
will extend through the
Farmers’ Convention on-July
23, the agents remaining for
this gathering.